Hattie Crisell - In Writing: Conservations on Inspiration, Perspiration, and Creative Desperation | Tuesday 12 November, 6.30pm

Enjoy an evening with writer Hattie Crisell as she shares her book of intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers, uncovering the mysteries of the creative process. Where do ideas come from? How do stories find their shape? What happens when confidence falters or the work fails? And, what does success look like?

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Hattie Crisell is a freelance writer, her work regularly appearing in The Times, Telegraph, and Vogue among others. Since 2019, she has produced and hosted the podcast In Writing with Hattie Crisell in which she interviews writers of all kinds, gaining insights that range from the thought-provoking to the hilarious. Curtis Sittenfeld defends the literary sex scene; Maggie O’Farrell tracks her plots out on four gigantic pin boards when she’s in a panic; and Sophie Mackintosh explains how she uses the idea of the bay leaf in her process –- something that adds flavour, but ultimately that you have to take out.

Taken as a whole, these inspiring interviews amount to an insider's guide to the writing process: its disciplines and demands; its ecstasies and agonies; its coffees, word counts and publishing hurdles. Most of all, they reveal how it really feels to write and be read.